Second, there’s "Alex Tkachman’s Weblog"
This is a blog by JetBrains’ Marketing Director – Alexander Tkachman. But don’t make word "marketing" fool you. Unlike many marketing guys you know, Alexander has a very solid technical background along with his great marketing experience. In his blog Alex uncovers what is going on in JetBrains from the very inside.

The third blog is "Sashka’s Weblog" by a JetBrains web-site manager and usability engineer, Alexandra Maximova. She doesn’t like the fact that IntelliJ IDEA is for programmers only and dreams that it’ll be also a great tool for web-designers. Along with other interesting topics, in her blog she writes about IntelliJ IDEA features that makes web-designer’s life easier.

I was going to write about these 3 blogs only, but, after checking our list of blogs at JetBrains People page I've discovered that 3 more JetBrainers have revived (or started) their English blogs recently:

Kir Maximov revived his blog yesterday. Kir, known as an author of IdeTalk plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, now develops the teamwork features for IntelliJ IDEA 6.0.

Oleg Stepanov, developer of Resharper and project manager of DotTrace, just revived his blog, and we should expect very interesting information about the course of Resharper and DotTrace development.

Mike Aizatsky, the leader of IntelliJ IDEA enterprise features team, has started his Random Rare Posts blog just 2 days ago. I wish him to write his rare and random posts quite often and regularly.

Ok, so, what should be the next theme in this blog?
The next theme – is about books… You may ask - what books? To get the answer, wait for the next post.

Do you want to comment on this post? Don’t hesitate – write any questions or opinions, and my answer won’t wait to follow

]]>Dmitriev2005-12-23T18:17:26+03:00Business Plan for Bloghttp://www.sergeydmitriev.com/blog/archives/2005/12/business_plan_f.html
Recently I’ve heard a lot of complaints from my colleagues that I should revive this blog. It looks like a blog becomes more and more essential accessory of a person, and, being very dynamic, even more then personal webpage.

I can imagine that in 5 years you won't ask: “do you have a blog”, but, instead, “where is your blog?”,the same as 10 years ago we used to ask - “do you have email?”, but now just : “what is your email?”
Of course in 5 years blogs won't remain the same as now, but this is another topic and it's worth writing about it in a separate post.

Let's start the business plan of the project "Sergey Dmitriev’s personal blog in English".
What is a strategic goal of it?
This is the simplest part, of course it should be: “To become the most popular blog in the world”

Ok, with the great goal like this in mind I should first find at least some means for reaching it.
After some consideration I see that:First, the popular blog is the source of interesting information.
- So my blog should become such source for those people who are interested in the projects in which I’m involved directly: JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, MPS, Beelaxy. My interests are wider though, as you will see later (just subscribe!)

Second, the popular blog should help people to socialize – it means if people are interested in an article – they discuss it in comments and other blogs.
- My participating in such discussions will make my life more meaningful and my blog more popular. So, no problem here

Third, the reference to popular blog spreads like virus through recommendations in other blogs.
- Of course, I'll ask my colleagues to recommend my blog in their blogs, and I'm going to recommend their blogs in exchange – good start, IMO

Fourth, after reading some of my blog post you should want to subscribe to the blog.
- Oh, that’s easy: I’m sure that after reading this post you will subscribe to blog, don’t you?

Fifth, the most complicated: once subscribed, you won't unsubscribe.
Thus I'll publish some very exciting stuff here quite regularly.

Some popular blogs became a powerful marketing tool.
I know a least 2 bloggers whose blogs are more popular then their companies:Martin Fowler from Thoughtworks

So, the first goal is quite easy – I should just make this blog more popular than website www.jetbrains.com. As a result, JetBrains or whatever will succeed just from mentioning it in my blog.
2 small problems stand on the way of making this blog the most popular in the world:
First, I don’t know English well. Second, I don’t have any writing skills. (writing compositions was that I hated at school most of all). Thus, until these problems are solved, you will suffer my awful style and miserable English. But it shouldn’t stop you to subscribe to this blog!

Ok, so, what is the next topic on this blog’s way to glory?
The next topic – is small but very important. I will give you very important presentation of 3 other blogs by JetBrainers… To be continued…

Do you want to comment this post? Don’t hesitate – write any questions or opinions, and I’ll answer…

]]>Dmitriev2005-12-22T10:55:02+03:00Intentional Software about MPShttp://www.sergeydmitriev.com/blog/archives/2005/06/intentional_sof.html
Comments about MPS were posted at Intentional Software's website. This company, founded by Charles Simonyi in 2002, is developing its Intentional Programming(IP) project. The IP project has very similar goals to MPS and can be considered as another implementation of the Language-Oriented Programming approach.
Charles Simonyi has advocated these ideas for more than 10 years.
Recently they have started a very interesting blog at their web site, where they post articles explaining the concepts of Language-oriented programming.]]>MPSDmitriev2005-06-22T16:22:34+03:00Early Access to MPS and Martin Fowler's Articlehttp://www.sergeydmitriev.com/blog/archives/2005/06/early_access_to.html
Two remarkable events happened on previous week.
We started the early access program for our Meta Programming System, so anybody can download and try it from http://www.jetbrains.com/mps

Special thanks to Rob Harwood, who helped me a lot with writing the article!
Actually the process of writing the article was the following: I explained to Rob what I want to see in the given paragraph, then he wrote the text, the we have edited it together, I commented on the text, he changed it again and so on. With my poor English and lack of experience in writing articles I could never finsh this article without Rob's help.

]]>MPSDmitriev2004-11-17T20:15:25+03:00Starting the Blog!http://www.sergeydmitriev.com/blog/archives/2004/11/starting_the_bl.html
So, I'm starting a new weblog, hope to make it active and interesting.
It is not my first attempt to start weblog in English. Last year I've posted few messages to this weblog. I also have a weblog in Russian on LiveJournal and there were several big discussions about the new programming paradigm.]]>Dmitriev2004-11-17T18:25:14+03:00